‘Israel’s economy will outpace the US,’ PM tells cabinet, predicting that Israel joining US visa waiver program will lead to Aliyah surge.
Israel National News Jan 16, 2023,
Netanyahu during cabinet meetingAmos Ben Gershom/GPO
Israel will experience a massive increase in immigration from Western countries including the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cabinet members during a recent meeting.
According to a report by Israel Hayom Monday morning, during the course of Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting, the prime minister predicted that Israel’s economic growth will surpass that of the United States.
Coupled with Israel’s entry into the US visa waiver program, the Jewish state’s strengthening economy will attract significantly more American Jewish immigrants.
“Israel’s economy is getting stronger; we will outpace the US, and we have already outpaced Europe,” Netanyahu said, according to the report.
“We will lead to aliyah from the West by would-be immigrants wishing to improve their [financial] wellbeing. Of course, there is also the rise of antisemitism, but this will not be the only driving force for moving to Israel, the flow will be great.”
Netanyahu touted his foreign currency market reforms in the mid-1990s, arguing that market liberalization would fuel not only economic growth but also immigration to Israel.
“Look at what we did with these reforms. At the time, you could not move money out of Israel, and people warned that our measures would open up the floodgates. But then the exact opposite happened: Foreign currency actually moved into Israel.”
“We cannot safeguard Zionism by fencing it in or by restricting citizens’ movements.”
Israel is currently working with the US to join the visa waiver program, which would allow Israeli passport holders wishing to visit the US to enter the country without first securing a visa from the US embassy or consulate in Israel.
While American expatriates living in Israel can enter the US freely on their American passports, Israeli spouses of American nationals must first obtain a visa.
The US and Israel have been engaged in talks for years in an effort to reach an agreement enabling Israel to join the visa waiver program. To comply with the program’s requirements, Israel would be required to share data on travelers with the US, and to have fewer than 3% of visa applications to the US rejected during the preceding year.
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I think things could get interesting if this pans out. Something has got to change in the world so that all the Jews / Israeli’s want to return home. How this is going to happen no one knows, but Hashem said it would. And if that is not enough, all the nations are going to be coming and looking to Jerusalem. All the nations must go down, so Israel can rise.
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Since all American Olim can visit the US now without a visa, including all Israelis in the visa waiver program, will make no difference.
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Isn’t this a contradiction?
If you make it easier for the Israelis to enter the US while making it harder for the Jewish Americans and their families to make aliyah, plus introduce other interesting reforms which scare the secular Jews, wouldn’t it lead to yeridah (leaving Israel) surge?
People were reduced to serfs in feudal times out of need for short term, on the doorstep security to bring in the harvest because (Roman Imperial) government had collapsed mostly because the emperors and army thought they had the power to do as they pleased without respect for funds and laws and their primary purpose to keep out barbarians.
Britain is NOT what it was in the World pecking order but is still 7x population and 6 x GDP of Israel and recognisably sovereign and independent … yet we saw this late 2022 how “the markets” forced HMG to back pedal furiously on a proposed budget and change prime minister.
Israel and the constituencies of Deri and Smotrich had better be careful NOT to push and grab too much by way of enforcing their religious bees in the bonnet and welfare or those coming on Aliyah NOT because of Antisemitism might prefer other havens and like the Albrights ditch the complexities of being Jewish.
Netanyahu’s glowing prediction that Israel will receive a massive increase in immigration from the United States, ignores the fact that Israel’s catastrophic Covid19 protocols followed globalist political medicine, not Israeli public health. Netanyahu, like Trump, followed big-Pharma technocrats into the waiting globalist abyss. Israel is no safer than the United States for any individual who values freedom and national sovereignty.There will be no massive increase in immigration from the United States, because the problem in America is freedom, not the economy. There is no freedom without national sovereignty and the sovereignty of the individual. Israel’s growing technocracy that fuels its economic development is not deliverance, it is a deadly humanitarian hoax. Globalist technocracy ends in the restructuring of the world order back to feudalism, where the people are once again reduced to serfs. BUYER BEWARE!